Scaffolding is down on the first terrace in South Leyton. Waltham Forest’s high street regeneration project extends our award winning Leyton town center project southwards linking up the new entrance to the Olympic Park in Mill Lane with Leyton and the tube station. The facade colour scheme which prompted the press to label the area “The Notting Hill of the East” visually connects the two sections of the high street currently transected by the A12. Work in South Leyton will enliven the high street with a number of local cafes and patisseries receiving new, openable shopfronts with outside seating and spruced-up signage. We hope that on a sunny day the high street will be buzzing with people sitting outside the cafes and walking through the newly re-built Draper’s Fields.